The Linux user share on Steam has been slowly but steadily trending upwards, with May 2025 showing the highest point in years.

But how does one participate in these statistics? Via the Help menu -> System report -> Submit?

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You’ll get a popup on Steam telling you about the sutvey and asking you to share info. You click yes or no, and that’s it. I’ve gotten them a few times.

There are no questions to answer, it just takes freely available system info.

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No. It’s randomly sampled supposedly.

Thanks. I was hoping there was some way to voluntarily help those stats along. It’s a known phenomenon in the linux community how much we hate leaving a crumb trail of any kind, but it would be nice to send a signal to game developers to start taking us seriously, and that might just be through steam stats after all.

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